NC presents memo to Guv on new job policy

Tribune News Service

Jammu, April 24

The National Conference (NC) today urged Governor NN Vohra to prevail upon the PDP-BJP coalition government for withdrawing the controversial and anti-youth new recruitment policy forthwith and undertake fast-track recruitment under the provisions of the J&K Civil Services Decentralisation and Recruitment Act 2010.

In a memorandum to the Governor, a high-level National Conference delegation led by senior leader and former Finance Minister Abdul Rahim Rather, the party expressed its resentment to proposed promulgation of an ordinance in this regard.

The delegation comprised NC provincial president Devender Singh Rana, former minister Surjeet Singh Slathia, MLA Javed Rana, Kamal Arora, MLA, Rattan Lal Gupta, Kashmira Singh, Rachpal Singh, Sheikh Bashir Ahmed and Jugal Mahajan.

The memorandum, inter alia, expressed surprise over the brazen attempt of the coalition government to bypass the well-established mechanism of recruitment agencies such as the Jammu and Kashmir Public Service Commission and the State Services Selection Board, saying this is a calculated move to undermine the constitutional role of institutions and is fraught with danger of encouraging corruption, nepotism and exploitation of unemployed educated youth.

The National Conference termed the new recruitment policy as a ploy to politicise the process of recruitment in a sensitive state like Jammu and Kashmir, which has passed through a most testing time, especially since the past over two and a half decades.

It stated that the young and enterprising unemployed educated have all the reason to get disillusioned and the job policy had the potential to alienate them further from the mainstream.